{"id":1570,"date":"2010-01-12T19:14:00","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T03:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2010\/01\/12\/practice\/"},"modified":"2015-01-01T10:42:54","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T18:42:54","slug":"practice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2010\/01\/12\/practice\/","title":{"rendered":"Practice"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve mentioned that I’m going to make a new quilt for our bed, and I’m planning to use the Winding Ways pattern. Since this pattern is all curved piecing, I thought I’d better make a practice block or two. I used leftovers from the table runner, which is almost finished, rather than wasting some of the “good” fabric purchased for the quilt. Here’s what I’ve done:<\/p>\n

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The block on the left was the first one, and you can see that it has a “problem” in the center. Oops! But the second one was better, so I think I’m good to go, when I get to that stage. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’ve mentioned that I’m going to make a new quilt for our bed, and I’m planning to use the Winding Ways pattern. Since this pattern is all curved piecing, I thought I’d better make a practice block or two. I used leftovers from the table runner, which is almost finished, rather than wasting some of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[217,280],"class_list":{"0":"post-1570","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-piecing","8":"tag-piecing-2","9":"tag-winding-ways","10":"czr-hentry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sandymike.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/IMG_2532.jpg?fit=640%2C440&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/s5yzuO-practice","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1465,"url":"https:\/\/sandymike.net\/blog\/2011\/03\/02\/new-blocks-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":1570,"position":0},"title":"New blocks","author":"Sandy","date":"March 2, 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"I've always liked curved blocks: Drunkard's Path, New York Beauty, Winding Ways, etc. In fact, I've already made two projects from the Drunkard's Path block, I've done some NY Beauties, and I recently finished my Winding Ways quilt (photo coming soon, I hope!). 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